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Create a quick and easy set of stipple Illustrator brush files perfect for craeting vector flash art designs ready for tattoos, posters, and more! The techniques explored in this tutorial can be applied to other styles of brush creation as well.

What You’ll Be Creating Vector Avatar Creation for Beginners is the ideal course for those who are new to Adobe Illustrator and don’t know where to start. In this course, you’ll learn step by step, shape by shape, how to create a cartoon-style avatar from a stock image.

I’ve gotten a lot of responses to this post about how I made the intricate designs in those headers. Swirls, and swooshes, or whatever you want to call them, are pretty hard to come by as a freebie (except here on BittBox), and they are even more rare in vector format. Part of the reason is that most people, even avid Illustrator users, don’t realize how easy it is to create these shapes. All it takes is a few simple, yet not highly utilized Illustrator tips. This tutorial will show you how to create your own curlies, and swooshes easily, in Illustrator. It’s not nearly as difficult as you might think. . . And to answer all of your questions: Yes I made all of those designs on …

What You’ll Be Creating If you’ve recently graduated or found yourself delving back into the job market, you’ll have to make sure your resumé is up to scratch and ready to wow your future employer. A great way to grab an employer’s attention is to create a set of branded correspondence materials that reflect your personality and look really fantastic. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a branded resumé, letterhead and business card in Adobe InDesign, and take a look at how you can transfer your personal branding across all the print items to create a unified, uber-professional look. This will work especially well for creatives (e.g. illustrators, designers, artists, etc.) who want to use their CV as an opportunity to show off their layout design skills. This tutorial is quick, simple and suitable for beginners to Adobe InDesign. Right, let’s get started! 1. Creating Your Personal ‘Brand’ It may sound a bit corny, …

What You’ll Be Creating In today’s tutorial we will get to create something really sweet—yes, you guessed it, ice cream! OK, so it’s not real ice cream, but we will be making some cool little icons that will leave your taste buds craving. We will focus on using the Rounded Rectangle Tool to create the shapes, in combination with different Blending Modes and Gradients in order to get that interesting glow effect. Summer’s here, and I know almost all of you love to sit back and relax once in a while with a big old ice cream in your hand. I won’t lie, I do it almost every day, and that’s why I decided to make a cool little tutorial on the subject. Enough talking—let’s open Illustrator and start playing with some recipes. 1. Setting Up Our Document Let’s start simple by creating a New Document ( Control-N or File > New ) and adjusting some of its properties. Number of Artboards : 1 Width : 640 px Height : 600 px Units : Pixels And from the Advanced tab: Color Mode : RGB Raster Effects : High (300 ppi) Align New Objects to Pixel Grid : checked 2. Setting Up Our Layers Once we have created a New Document it’s time to layer it so that we can create a nice, tidy workspace which in the end will let us focus on each section of the illustration one step at a time. So, open up the Layers panel, and create six layers, naming them as follows: purple orange green chocolate double biscuit 3. Adjusting the Grid If you’re new to the Grid…

Watercolour, grunge and retro are three hot design styles that result in stunning artwork. If you’ve ever admired these kinds of effects and wished you could create them yourself, today I have the perfect collection of resources to show you. This Inspirational Artistic Design Bundle contains the best-selling products from the top creative resource sellers. These are the same tools they use to create their trend setting designs, including 12 creative fonts, 1000+ vectors, patterns, mockups, effects packs and many more coveted products—all for 91% off the regular price. Creative projects aren’t only for fun. Websites like Etsy mean that many designers just like you are earning decent incomes selling everything from posters to greeting cards. This bundle will equip you with the best tools for the job, at an unbeatable discount (91%) and with the complete licensing to allow you to resell your artwork, prints and derivative products. Check out the awesome…

Company branding affects every area of design including print and digital work. Hand-drawn illustration is a magnificent tool for building recognizable branding within a particular business. Although it is more of a complicated skillset, your design work will improve dramatically if you just keep practicing. This gallery includes 30 outstanding illustrated branding concepts you can study and utilize for your own work. Each of these examples demonstrate finished pieces and how your designs should look as a result. Check out a few designs and see if any illustrated styles can spark your creative engines. Presto Magic Club Pirate’s Treasure Alabama Honey Laundry Service abc HW Comics Mountain Home Acid Cloud Machin Machine Blue Marble Brands Sips & Cigars Shiny Objects Limited Deal Snitch Halloween Imperial Insignia Dine & Drawn Goodbits Sticker Club Sandwich Devil’s Dive Fitness Trainer Coca-Cola Truck It Waves of Grace CreepyTees Les Dragons Nains Brothers and Robbers Eko Cvetko Art Smart Beaver’s Tail The Costume Effect Airkitty The post 30 Illustrated Logos &